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I’m supposed to be studying but instead I made a pair of glasses for my cat and pretended he was studying 🙃

It came! And it’s snowing - so it’s pretty much Christmas right now. 

My dream day:

Oscar has been inspecting my shelves. Its hard to tell if he approves …

2016, The Year We Defeat out Backlist TBR Sometimes, in a well meaning way, you purchase books, or get books with every intention to read them. But then time passes. And it passes. Like, imagine a comically large amount of time. But you just don’t get around to reading that book. Then that book becomes 20, 50, 100 books on your shelf that you haven’t read yet and you’re just like dying? Well not this year! Not for us. We’ve committed ourselves to reading the following twelve books, one book a month to catch up on our ever-growing TBR. Read on to see what books we picked and if YOU want to join the challenge, then comment or tweet us with a picture of your books! Read more here: http://bit.ly/1n0sFED

Cat Art: Your Own Custom 8x10 framed Cat Portrait Painting from your photos

I got tagged by @i-have-beards​ - hooray! - a fellow Aquarian. 

Name: Stella Nickname/s: Coffee Star Sign: Aquarius Gender: Female Height: 5′6 Sexual Orientation: If I - want to take a guy - home with me tonight - it’s none of your business!...  Favorite color/s: Yellow Time right now: 2100 hours Average hours of sleep: 6 Lucky Numbers: 4 - Because 4 is a cosmic number. Last thing I googled: Best alarm clocks  Number of blankets I sleep under: two Favorite fictional characters: Moss from The IT Crowd, Ripley from Alien.  Fave books: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, East of Eden, Orlando, and many, many more.  Favorite Bands/Artists:  Fever Ray, The Knife, New Order, and many, many more. Dream Job: Wilderness Guide What I’m wearing rn: Grey t-shirt and jeans.  I tag: @kimbooklr @charlie-and-books @rainbow-books @reading-takes-you-places @heartlessharless 

Getting a head-start on producing “Right wingin, bitter clingin’, PROUD clingers” bumper stickers. I’ll be rich!

Every Single Person That Reblogs This Before February 2016

will get a drawing based on their URL!

25 Of the Most Magnificent Libraries Around the World - Right from the Pages of a Fairytale

There is an essence of timelessness when it comes to libraries and books. Even with the modern marvels of human technology, e-books, audio books, libraries have still preserved the atmosphere of exercising and feeding the human mind with rich text and pages of storytelling. These great feats of architecture we have featured below are the integration of great design and the age old love of ancient yellow pages that have the history of the world etched in them.

The priceless treasure trove of great minds, dreamers and scholars are documented in these buildings which have been designed and built with great care in order to make them stand forever as a monument over these articles of importance like no other.

The libraries below have become an enduring tribute to impeccable design; the best décor and space construction, and art are ingrained into the floors and ceilings and wood panelling. Some of these studies have been built to attract not only readers eager to ponder over pages of food for thought, but to keep the spirit of young minds eager to see the enchanting presence of a library no digital book can recreate.

When that unique smell of worn out books, dust mingled with sunny afternoons wafts through the stone cracks of these majestic structures, people once again are transported back to the classic charm of an intimate moment spent with a satisfying story in the solitude of a hall crammed with books to the ceiling.

The National Library Of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Biblioteca Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

The Admont Library, Admont, Austria

George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, Usa 

St. Florian Monastery, Austria

Bibliothèque Nationale De France, Paris, France

Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-generaal Den Haag Iii, Netherlands

Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria

Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, Portuga

The City Libary, Stuttgart, Germany

The Iowa State Law Library, Iowa, USA

The Oberlausitzische Library Of Science, Gorlitz, Germany

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, Connecticut, USA

The Old Public Library Of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève, Paris, France

New York Public Library

Walker Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Vennesla Library, Vennesla, Norway

Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, France

St John’s College Library, Cambridge, UK

 The Library Of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA

Technical University “gheorghe Asachi” Library, Iasi, Romania

The Great Library Of The Reformed Church College Of Sarospatak - Sarospatak, Hungary

The National Library Of China, Beijing, China

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The Arena Challenge Round #007 | Top3: Sagas ↳ [02/03] Outlander Series

i’m studying in china. yesterday i came to turkey for the holiday. and the first thing today, i went to a bookshop. these are my new books for a month. i really miss reading in turkish.

god bless writers!

Beautiful maps in Six of Crows…

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

David Bowie, 1947-2016

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Reading Goal - Read about people whose stories inspire my own. 

(This one was inspired by the “Google Doodle” for today.)

Looks fun. 

First read of 2016!

Walking into the bookstore like

Audrey II is a Sarlacc - right?!!

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sarlacc

Some 20s lingo

Most Reblogged Books

So many, so little time.

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordian

A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

The Divergent series by Veronica Roth

The Amazing Book is Not On Fire by Dan Howell and Phil Lester

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas

Twilight: Life and Death by Stephenie Meyer

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Warriors series by Erin Hunter

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

The Selection series by Kiera Cass

GETTING BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS

It’s just like:

The Best Way Books

Numbers 2, 3 & 4

Existential Riddles

Shouts & Murmurs: “Which is heavier, a ton of feathers or a ton of gold? Everything is equal in a cruelly indifferent universe.”

Ha - 

“A man is locked in a room with only a piano. How does he escape?

The man uses a piano “key” to escape. Then he uses religion to escape, then drugs, then a relationship that clearly won’t work out in the long term, then unhealthy food, then rage, then the “key” again, because it’s a cycle, it’s an endless cycle, and he can never truly escape until he accepts that she’s really gone.”

“Star Wars” vs “Game of Thrones”

(Source: Mashable & Buzzfeed)

I love to browse the Q section of the stacks - growing up on Bill Nye the Science Guy, I have a healthy appreciation for the general sciences! This interesting book really caught my eye, as there are a wide variety of images made me want to learn more about it. Published in 1636, here is Delicia Physic-Mathematicae, a book about scientific recreations and ideas for inventions. Daniel Schwenter (Schwender) is the author of this book, and he was also a mathematician, inventor, poet, and librarian!

Want to read this entire book? Check it out on Google Books!

xQ155 S45 v.1

-Lindsay M.

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